Why I love Manchester City

[jimharri]

It affords me the opportunity of interacting with working-class people on a social basis.

Not the sort of person you'd generally like to be seen with by your friends, I guess. I do empathise with your discomfort.

 

[poh]

I am an old git and I can't remember...............yes I do,I was 8 years old and even then I detested the filth and their fans here in Ragland,I was the only city boy in a school of 400 boys,and funny enough where I work now there are 500 people in the building and guess who is the only city fan ? So you see over here we city fans are a pretty exclusive club.when you fall in love at 8 years of age you just don't let go.Fuck I love city,even though like all love affairs we have our up's and downs,and it was all those downs that make the affair so much sweeter now.

 

[jaiguruKun]

It's a big two-fingered salute to the footballing establishment cf. Agenda thread.

 

[Pokes28]

Because of the constant emotional drain.... Things have been working out in our favor lately, but it is never easy. There is something endearing about that.

 

[baildon blue]

Even when we were real shit I loved City .
We never do things the easy way .

 

[Bill]

i think the word sometimes should be added to the title of this thread.

 

[scotty123]

Because as a very young scallywag growing up in Salford it annoyed the local rags like fuck, cost me my two front teeth and scars on my lips in later life but annoying them twats it was and always will be worth it

 

[give it to gordon]

Because its my home city its were i was born

I love the humour of the fans and the fact of no matter were you are in the world if you see or are seen by another City fan we always have a chat, its the sence of belonging.

 

[big gaz]

I pissed the old man off and picked the right Gillespie, me gran loved me.

 

[dom]

As a new arrival in Manchester 25 years ago with a rugby background, I had no immediate loyalties... but within months of settling here , it was quite clear to me that the Rags and their fans were insufferably arrogant and ungracious....

Always sided with City since then.. informally....

My twins were born in 1997.... brought up in Chorlton and chose City ..... not easy back then... some of their classmates at Ossy Road abandoned City....
They had the piss taken.....but hung on in there

both my twins are blue... now only one of them is a match-going fan We always had City as our club and bonded over that ...